Playing With Smartphones Hinders Toddler’s Brain Development

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Playing With Smartphones Hinders Toddler’s Brain Development

In the present era, usually parents think, giving a smartphone to their kid at an early age will prove to be beneficial. But this can be taken as a warning for those parents. According to a new survey, it is found that Toddlers who play with smart phones are at an increased risk of impeding their brain development.

So Parents, note! Better keep your smart phone away from the reach of your kids.

According to a new study, 25 per cent of kids as old as two years old and younger have their own smart phones, which parents say is used as a learning tool for their kids, ‘CBS News’ reported.

However, experts say it is too young for children to be utilising this type of technology and that the kids are not learning but are just being given the phone as a distraction.

Experts are concerned because this type of smart phone use, at such a young age, can impede early development in areas that would impact the child for the rest of their lives.

Using smartphone at a young age can impede early development in areas that would impact the child for the rest of their lives

Since childhood is a time for serious brain development, children could face problems with their basic social, verbal and learning skills. Let us take an example, Suppose there is a task for a child with smartphone to do some mathematical calculation, and he fails then he will use his smartphone for that task without doing that much of hard work.

Psychiatrist Gail Saltz told the “CBS This Morning: Saturday” that this type of smart phone use could actually hurt the child and that “this is really for babysitting purposes or the fear that your child can’t be bored.”


Saltz said that these years are the years that one needs to be developing vocabulary, which means speaking and listening, but parents are really minimising that by engaging their toddler in a gadget.

Saltz said that parents should realise that a smart phone is “structured time” and does not allow for free thinking.

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